Connect2Media Rebrands Rayfusion

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though Connect2Media bought Rayfusion back in 2008, the company has started to rebrand the unit only now. The unit will now operate under the name of Connect2Media Middle East. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Design Awards Coming

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple will soon be hosting the Apple Design Awards 2010. With the award, the company will be spotlighting apps that stand out from the crowd. The best is, you don’t even need to sign up to get listed! Read the rest of this entry »

Jon Stewart and his Appholes

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The guys over at Moconews found some brilliant footage from the Daily Show. In about 8 minutes, Jon Stewart totally bashes Apple for the Gizmodo drama while still admitting that he loves their products. Read the rest of this entry »

Financials: Gameloft Q1 2010

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft has posted their quarterly financials for the first quarter of 2010. Revenues went up 7% and even though Gameloft has put a lot of efforts in increasing their revenues from Apple, iPhone OS brought in only 21% of the revenues. Read the rest of this entry »

HP Acquires Palm for $1.2 Billion – UPDATED

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Big news for Palm today as the device vendor has been acquired by HP. To many, this move came as a surprise as Lenovo seemed to be the last company in the race for the acquisition. Read the rest of this entry »

Namco Boosts Unity SDK Userbase

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

During the GDC, Namco announced their own social gaming platform as an answer to the popularity of Scoreloop and OpenFeint. The benefit of theirs would be the multiplatform strategy. Read the rest of this entry »

Doodle Jump Passes 4 Million Downloads

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The success story of Doodle Jump keeps continuing as LimaSky announced that Doodle Jump has passed the 4 million downloads milestone on Apple’s App Store since its launch in March 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Zeemote Offers Android SDK’s

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Mobile game developers can now also activate Zeemote support for their Android games. Following a successful release of their J2me and BlackBerry SDK’s, the company has now released an Android SDK. Read the rest of this entry »

GetJar Signs Enters India with Reliance Telecom

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

GetJar has signed a very interesting deal with Indian carrier Reliance Telecom. Through the deal, GetJar will make available its catalogue of mobile games and apps toward Reliance’s 100m subs. Read the rest of this entry »

FreeAppADay Boosts 5 Games into US Free Top 10

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over the past weekend, FreeAppADay managed to boost five games into the US top 10 of free iPhone games. With this promotion, the company shows it has a dominant position in the discovery business. Read the rest of this entry »